What ideas have influenced your practice in 2019?
Steve Mostyn
Associate Fellow Sa?d Business School, Honorary Professor Adam Smith Business School
I am often asked in my role at SBS - What's new in leadership development? Our obsession with newness is misguided. Most ideas are evolutions of concepts from Plato and beyond. With this in mind I offer four evolved ideas and models that have influenced my practice in 2019.
The Power of Doubt : Prof Micheal Smets and Prof Tim Morris: This idea based on the CEO report from 2015 is a profound exploration of leaders relationship with uncertainty. The work is an interactive exploration of fearlessness, knowing, not knowing and anxiety. The best leaders understand and work with the paradox of doubt. I have been aware of this model for sometime but in classroom workshops this year it really came alive for me.
Stepping Up: The Education and Training Foundation Programme Preparing for CEO that I co lead with Louise Watts is a focus on transition. Roger Wynn Jones has developed a powerful session with Sir Frank McLoughlin on the real choice to step up to the CEO role. This choice demands focus on some simple questions.
Do you really want the role?
What's stopping you?
Can you be deeply fulfilled by simply going further in the current role?
This work is currently unpublished but watch this space from Roger in 2020.
Trust: Rachel Botsman, another great faculty on our Education Leadership Programme has done a great job and reframing the trust question beyond the usual cliches to create a more precise language on trust. Her contribution is a strong link to the Power of Doubt. Trust is a bridge between the known and the unknown. Rachel’s definition is clear and helpful: 'Trust is a confident relationship with the Unknown’
Reputation: Rupert Younger has helped me dive deeper into the topic of reputation and provides rich insight into the crucial elements of 'character' and 'capability'. His analysis helps understanding of why for example VW group flourished post the emissions scandal and are set to be a global leader in electric vehicles in 2020/22.
All ideas are connected and evolving. What ideas have influenced your practice in 2019?
Trusted Strategy Advisor and Consultant, performance coach, Mental Health advocate and former FE CEO. Helping leaders to thrive. London and Lake District
5 年Great challenge as ever Steve. I’ve gone both modern and ancient and like the collision between the two where they crash or kiss. Ryan Holliday recent translations of stoicism is influencing my coaching. The modern is anything by Seligman around concept of flourishing. Finally coaching been enhanced by understanding Nancy Kline approaches of using silence as the conversation. Hard for me!
FOCUS: EMCC International Executive Coach, Senior Executive Coach LEADING MINDS, Associate Coach with WWA (UAE) + Humanitarian Coaching Network + SMARTWORKS Charity + AUTHOR - NOMINATED 2020 GLOBAL COACHING AWARD
5 年Ideas that have influenced my practice:? Working with a remote team of leaders who have never met, knew nothing about each other and were all working on the same project with a common vision.? Amazed at how they so easily worked, partnered and supported each other from different locations and after approx. 20 months met each other for the first time on completion of the project.? They were superb.? With a clear common vision and the motivation to achieve the outcome they each individually excelled and achieved.
Author of We the Leader published by McGraw Hill *Leadership Disrupter * Innovative Leadership Development * Executive Team Coaching * Speaker
5 年Thanks Steve! So appreciate your thoughtfulness. Is not a certainty of the value of uncertainty the stuff of curiosity?
International Executive Development and OD Specialist
5 年The significance of anticipatory thinking, dealing with unconscious bias and getting to grips with what collaboration does and doesn't mean.
Impact engineer; helping businesses dance the VUCA tango??! I do: Content Marketing?? | Product Management | ???Strategy Development | Trouble-shooting |??Innovation & Change | Appreciative Inquiry??
5 年Power of doubt is undoubtedly a standout framework (amongst several others on the OELP) that I have been introduced to this year. Helpful in getting unstuck in a world of unrelenting change.